mind 
I do thee wrong to mind thee of it. 
Shalt. , Hen. V., iv. 8. 18. 
There's not a bonnie bird that sings, 
But minds me o' my Jean. 
Bums, Of a' the Airts the Wind can Blaw. 
3. To regard with attention ; pay attention to ; 
heed; notice. 
Men must sometimes mind their affairs to make more 
room for their pleasures. 
Cotton, in Walton's Angler, ii. 238. 
Did you mind how he put the young fellow out of coun- 
tenance that pretended to talk to him? 
Steele, Taller, No. 242. 
Archimedes, the famous mathematician, was so intent 
upon his problems that he never minded the soldiers who 
came to kill him. Swift, Tritical Essay. 
Never mind the difference, we'll balance that another 
time. Sheridan, School for Scandal, iv. 1. 
4. To have the care of ; attend to; specifically, 
to take or have the oversight of: as, a boy to 
mind the door. 
Old women some gossiping, some Bitting vacant at 
the house dDor, some spinning or weaving, or minding 
little children. J. A. Symonds, Italy and Greece, p. 14. 
Mrs. Duncan minded the two children most of the day, 
to the jealous rage of Tipple. The Century, XXXVI. 845. 
6. To care for; be concerned about; be af- 
fected by. 
Whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. 
Phil. iii. 19. 
They [the Brazilians] minde the day, and are not carefull 
for the morrow. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 886. 
They [the kine of Bashanj minded nothing but ease, 
softness, and pleasure. Stillingjleet, Sermons, I. i. 
I did not mind his being a little out of humour. 
Sttde, Xatler, No. 206. 
In the open chimney -place of the parlor was a wood fire 
blazing cheerfully on the backs of a couple of brass griffins 
who did not seem to mind it. 
T. B. Aldrich, Ponkapog to Pesth, p. 63. 
The peculiarity of liquids and gases is that they do not 
mi, id being bent and having their shapes altered. 
W. K. Clifard, Lectures, I. 17B. 
6. To look out for ; be watchful against. [Col- 
loq.] 
"You'd better mind that fellow, Mr. Fitzgerald," said 
the native. A. C. Grant, Bush-life in Queensland, I. ISO. 
7. To regard with submission ; heed the com- 
mands of; obey_: as, a headstrong child that 
will mind no one. 8. In the Bom. Catli. Ch., 
to pray for. See a month's mind, under mind 1 , 
n. 9f. To intend; mean; purpose. 
As for me, be sure I mind no harm 
To thy grave person. Chapman, Iliad. 
Mind the word I be attentive to the order given. Mind 
your eye ! lie careful. [Slang. ] Mind your helm ! be 
careful ; take care what you do. [Naut. slang.] To be 
minded, to be disposed or inclined ; have in contempla- 
tion. 
Joseph was minded to put her away privily. Mat. i. 19. 
If thou be minded to peruse this little booke. 
Levins, Manip. Vocab. (E. E. T. S.), Pref., p. 4. 
Ne'er a Sir Lucius O'Trigger in the kingdom should make 
me tight, when I wa'n't so minded. 
Sheridan, The Rivals, iv. 1. 
To mind one's own business. See business. To mind 
one's p'B and q'8, to be circumspect or exact : probably 
in allusion to the early difficulty of distinguishing the 
forms of the letters. 
II. intraiis. 1. To remember. 2. To be in- 
clined or disposed ; design; intend. 
When one of them mindeth to go into rebellion, he will 
convey away all his lordships to feoffees in trust. 
Spenser, State of Ireland. 
I mind to tell him plainly what I think. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., iv. 1. 8. 
I never minded to upbraid you. 
J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 1863), II. 181. 
3. To give heed; take note. 
She, busied, heard the sound 
Of rustling leaves, but minded not. 
Milton, P. L., ix. 519. 
mind 2 (mind), . [Ir. mind, a crown, diadem.] 
A diadem: a name given to lunettes found in 
Ireland, commonly supposed to have been used 
as head-ornaments. 
Gold ornament believed to be the ancient Celtic mind 
or head ornament, formed of a thin semi-lunar plate of 
gold with raised ribs. S. K. Cat. Spec. ExMb., 1862, No. 851. 
The richer and more powerful kings wore a similar 
torque about the waist, and a golden mind or diadem on 
state occasions. Encyc. Brit., XIII. 257. 
mind-cure (raind'kur), n. A professed method 
of healing which rests upon the suppositions 
that all diseased states of the body are due to 
abnormal conditions of the mind, and that the 
latter (and thus the former) can be cured by 
the direct action of the mind of the healer upon 
the mind of the patient. [Recent.] 
mind-curer (mlnd'kur"er), n. One who pro- 
fesses to cure disease by direct influence upon 
the mind of the patient. [Recent.] 
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mind-day (mind'da), . An anniversary of some 
one's death. See a year's mind, under 
People of small wealth bequeathed enough to have this 
[lights upon the grave], among other rites, observed for 
them once every year, at each returning mind-day or anni- 
versary of their death. 
Kock, Church of our Fathers, III. i. 90. 
minded (min'ded), . [< mind 1 + -erf 2 .] Hav- 
ing a mind (of this or that kind) : only in com- 
position : as, high-minded, low-minded, feeble- 
minilcd, sober-minded, double-minded. 
A quiet mynded man and nothing ambitious of glory. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 13. 
Base minded they that want intelligence. 
Spenser, Tears of the Muses, 1. 88. 
mindedness (min'ded-nes), n. Disposition; 
inclination toward anything ; moral tendency : 
only in composition: as, he&venly-mindedness ; 
cle&r-mindedness. 
This base mindedtiesse is fit for the evil one. 
Bp. Hall, Holy Panegyrick. 
Open-mindednm had a still greater profit. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVIII. 463. 
minder (mm'der), . [< mind 1 , v., + -er 1 .] 1. 
One who minds, attends to, or takes care of 
anything; a caretaker. 
[This] must be reassuring doctrine to the minders of 
mules. Westminster Rev.. CXXV. 22. 
The history of invention shows how frequently impor- 
tant improvements in machinery are made by the work- 
man or minder in charge of it. Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 107. 
"Doffing," which is the operation of removing the full 
bobbins, and supplying the spindles with another set, is 
performed by the attendant called & minder always a 
female. Spons" Encyc. Manuf., I. 761. 
2. One who is minded or taken care of ; spe- 
cifically, a pauper child intrusted by the poor- 
law authorities to the care of a private person. 
[Rare.] 
"Those [children] are not his brother and sister ! " said 
Mrs. Boffin. " Oh dear no, Ma'am. Those are the Minders, 
. . . left to be minded." 
Didcens, Our Mutual Friend, i. 16. 
mindful (mind'ful), a. [< ME. myndeful; < 
mind 1 + -fid.] 1. Taking thought or care; heed- 
ful; thoughtful. 
SirGuyon, mindfvll of his vow yplight. 
Uprose from drowsie couch, and him addrest 
Unto the journey which he had behight. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. iii. 1. 
What is man that thou art mindful of him 1 Ps. viii. 4. 
Hail, shepherd ! Pan bless both thy flock and thee, 
For being mindful of thy word to me ! 
Fletcher, Faithful Shepherdess, ii. 3. 
2. Having knowledge, remembrance, or recog- 
nition; cognizant; aware. 
And Guinevere, not mind.fvl of his face 
In the King's hall, desired his name. 
Tennyson, Geraint. 
mindfully(mind'ful-i), adv. Attentively; heed- 
fully. Johnson. 
mindfulness (mind'ful-nes), n. The state or 
quality of being mindful; attention; heedful- 
ness; intention; purpose. 
There was no mindfulnesse amongst them of running 
awaie. Holinshed, Hist. Eng., an. 1010. 
mind-healer (mind'he"ler), n. Same as mind- 
curer. Medical News, LII. 1. 
minding (mln'ding), n. [Verbal n. of mindl, 
v.] Recollection; something to remember one 
by. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] 
minding-school (min'ding-skol), . A house 
in which minders (see minder, 2) are kept and 
taught. [Rare.] 
I keep a mindiny-school. ... I love children, and four- 
pence a week is fourpence. 
Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, i. 16. 
mindless (mind'les), a. [< ME. myndeles, < AS. 
genyndleas, also myndleds, senseless, foolish, < 
gemynd, mind, + -leds, E. -less.'] 1. Without 
mind; wanting power of thought; brutish; 
stupid; inanimate. 
Pronounce thee a gross lout, a mindless slave. 
Shak., W. T., i. 2.301. 
God first made angels, bodiless, pure minds ; 
Then other things which mindless bodies be ; 
Last he made man. 
Sir J. Danes, Immortal, of Soul, 9. 
The shrieking of the mindless wind. 
Whittier, Snow-Bound. 
He [the sick manl often awakened tolook.with his mind- 
less eyes, upon their pretty silver fragments strewn upon 
the floor. Cable, Old Creole Days, p. 85. 
2. Unmindful ; thoughtless ; heedless ; care- 
less. 
How cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth. 
Shak., T. of A., iv. 3. 93. 
Mindless of food, or love, whose pleasing reign 
Soothes weary life. Pope, Iliad, xxiv. 166. 
mine 
3. Not exhibiting or denoting thought; void of 
sense; irrational; inane: as, "mindless activ- 
ity," Ituskin. 
mind-reader (mind're"der), n. One who reads, 
or professes to be able to read or discern, what 
is in another's mind. [Recent.] 
The extreme subtlety of these indications is met by the 
unusual skill of the professional mind-reader. 
Pop. Set. lio., XXXIV. 154. 
mind-reading (mlnd're'diug), n. The art of 
discerning or reading another's thoughts by 
some direct or occult process. [Recent.] 
Mental suggestion is Rechet's contribution towards the 
task of naming the new phenomenon which is just now 
struggling for recognition, and which has been hitherto 
variously designated as " thought-transf erence, ' "mind- 
reading," and "telepathy." Science, V. 132. 
It was shewn that mind-reading so-called was really 
muscle-reading. Proc. Soc. Psych. Research, I. 17. 
mind-slckt (mind'sik), a. Disordered in mind. 
Manie curious mind-sicke persons utterlie condemne it. 
Ilolinshed, Descrip. of Eng., ii. 1. 
mind-stuff (mmd'stuf), n. A supposed sub- 
stance or quasi-material which by its differ- 
entiations constitutes mind. 
When matter takes the complex form of a living human 
brain, the corresponding mind-stuff takes the form of a 
human consciousness, having intelligence and volition. 
W. K. Cli/ord, Lectures, II. 85. 
mind-transference (mind ' trans 'fer- ens), . 
Thought-transference. See telepathy. 
Some experiments on the subject of mind -transference, 
or the occasional communication of mental impressions 
independently of ordinary perceptions, under peculiar and 
rare nervous conditions. Science, VIII. 659. 
mine 1 (min), pron. [In defs. 1 and 2, orig. gen. 
of / 2 ,< ME. min, myn,< AS. mm (= OS. OFries. 
wi = D. mijn = MLG. min = OHG. MHG. min, 
G. mein (also OHG. miner, MHG. miner, G. 
meiner) = Icel. minn = Sw. Dan. min = Goth. 
meina), genitive associated with iiom. ic, I, 
dat. me, me, me, etc.; prob. orig. an adj., with 
adj. suffix -w, from the root of me : see wie 1 , / 2 . 
In defs. 3, etc., merely poss. (adj.), < ME. min, 
myn, mine, myne, < AS. min, etc., = Goth. 
meins, mine, my; from the genitive. Hence, 
by loss of the final consonant, my.] 1. Of 
me; me; the original genitive (objective) of /. 
It was formerly usea with some verbs where later usage 
requires me. 
I was in Surrye a syr, and sett be myne one 
As soverayne and seyngnour of sere kynges londis. 
Marie Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3313. 
2. Of me ; belonging to me. The independent 
possessive form of the first personal me. corresponding to 
my as attributive before the thing possessed : as, that (the 
thing spoken of or indicated) is mine (is of me, belongs to 
me, or is my thing) ; these books are all mine (my prop- 
erty) : in this use now virtually an elliptical use of mine 
in def. 8. 
My doctrine is not mine [of me], but his [of him] that 
sent me. John vii. 16. 
3. Belonging to me: merely possessive, and 
construed as an adjective, preceding its noun, 
which may, however, be omitted, when the noun 
is expressed, the form is in ordinary use now reduced to my, 
theolder form mine being rarely used except archaically 
before a vowel or h, or by a familiar transposition after the 
noun, as in sister mine, baby mine, etc. 
Myn heritage mote I nedes selle, 
And ben a beggere, here may I nat dwelle. 
Chaucer, Franklin's Tale, 1. 835. 
I will encamp about mine house. Zeph. ix. 8. 
Mam, mother-7ine, or mammie, as children first call 
their mothers. Florio, p. 297. (Ualliuell.) 
Mi perdonato, gentle master mine. 
Shak., T. of the S., i. 1. 25. 
Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have 
my pocket picked? Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iii. 3. 93. 
Mine own romantic town ! Scott, Marmion, iv. 30. 
We sent mine host to purchase female gear. 
Tennyson, Princess, i. 
Like the other possessives in the independent form, mine 
preceded by of constitutes a double genitive of the pos- 
sessor in the first person and any word understood de- 
noting appurtenance or possession : as, a horse of mine 
(belonging to me); it is no fault of mine. 
Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor 
To those of mine. ShaJc., Hamlet, i. 5. 52. 
By ellipsis, the possessive mine is used (like other pos- 
sessives) (1) To avoid repetition of the name of the 
thing possessed: as, your hand is stronger than mine 
(my hand). 
Fleme them not fro oure companye, 
Sen thyne are myne and myne er thyne. 
York Plays, p. 458. 
The remnant . . . shall know whose words shall stand, 
mine [my words], or their's. Jer. xliv. 28. 
Mine and my father's death come not upon thee. 
5*0*., Hamlet, v. 2. 341. 
(2) To express generally 'that which belongs to me,' 'my 
possession, property, or appurtenance.' 
